Oxygénia
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia. On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him? This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia.
On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him?
This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
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"A radio receiver", Peter exclaimed excitedly and jumped up. "But<br />
you told me, ON, that radio devices are unkown in <strong>Oxygénia</strong> and no<br />
radio transmissions can be made from here..."<br />
"I've heard from you about radio for the very first time", ON<br />
replied.<br />
"During my work, I realised something strange", the engineer<br />
continued. "For some time now, a rhythmic sound is permanently to<br />
be heard, something I've never heard before. I can't understand<br />
what this message from the far means, it always registers on wave<br />
length 19.31..."<br />
"The frequency of spaceship "Humanitas"!"<br />
"Listen, I can reproduce what I heard by knocking."<br />
He did as he said. With a pounding heart, Peter recognized the<br />
Morse code: . -- . / . / - / . / . - . = Peter. So July lived! July lived<br />
and was aboard the spaceship "Humanitas"! She was aboard and<br />
searched for him!<br />
"How could I give an answer to these calls? And from where?", he<br />
called, excited.<br />
"From nowhere. Every transmission from here is being deleted by<br />
Central Control."<br />
"That can't be! As well as you can receive the signal, someone<br />
else can, too."<br />
The engineer shook his head.<br />
"The signal only gets to where Central Control wants it. I don't<br />
know why it was allowed through to my working place. And on this<br />
wave length are always only these signs, never anything else. Sadly,<br />
I don't know precisely the sending and receiving facilities in<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Our group produces this devices for Central Control. I<br />
also know that there are such devices in the Cities of the<br />
Rememberers, but those are not allowed to contact each other, only<br />
Central Control. Signals coming from space can only be received by<br />
Central Control."<br />
"But you just showed us that you can receive the calls from<br />
spaceship "Humanitas"."<br />
"We can only receive the signals that Central Control lets pass<br />
through to us because of our work. To us, these are always<br />
completely incomprehensible signals, and we mustn't occupy<br />
ourselves with solving them. If we tried to answer them, Central<br />
Control would delete our signals on the spot. Just the same way, all<br />
attempts from stations in the Cities of the Rememberers to contact<br />
each other are blocked."<br />
"But how does Central Control that?"<br />
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